I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

A dead enemy is a joy forever